The News Cycle—Growing Up (2nd and 3rd Day Articles)

The first article I originally picked, State police serve
drug investigation warrants in 4 western Pa. counties, was followed up on the
next day.The follow-up article in the
Tribune-Review was entitled: 29 charged after Western Pennsylvania undercover
drug operation.It was much longer, had
quotes from a commanding police officer and district attorney.It gave more information on the “street and
midlevel dealers” were caught (they sold drugs to undercover police officers).It gave specific details on a few of the
accused such as what drugs they sold and what quantity they had.One of them was also a student at IUP, so
they quoted a spokeswoman from IUP.However, none of the seven people who were not previously apprehended
were found.Therefore, it is possible
there could be yet another article as they find these suspects and yet more articles
as these cases make their way through the court system.I would not imagine that these articles would
be in the near future though.

The second article I had picked which was from the Pittsburgh-Post
Gazette, Carlynton faces suit for opposing enrollment of homeless children,
also had an article written about it the next day.The newer article was headlined, School zone:
Better law can help the homeless get an education.This article was a little bit different of a
situation than the first one I remarked on (see above about the drug bust). The second day article was actually shorter
than the first.It also did not include
any quotes, while the first day article did.Essentially there was nothing new to say in this article.It was just a summary of the previous
article.The only new development was
that the suit was filed.I think the
article was meant mainly just to keep this issue in the public’s eye, as in the
future, the case will be bigger news since the ruling could have serious
implications for the 2001 law.

The last article I picked, 3 accused of getting $400,000
from altered machine at Meadows, actually has had two articles written on it
since it was originally printed.The
original article was extremely brief and promised more information in the next
day’s paper.Sure enough, there was an
article with more information the next day.The article, Trio tripped up in Meadows scam, was lengthy, had quotes,
was full of information, and even had pictures of the three accused men.The third day article, Gaming security failed
to record slots theft, provided yet more new information.The article did not begin with a summary of
the old facts.It assumed to some degree
that the reader already had some knowledge of what occurred.Later in the article, it summarized the old
information, but it did begin with this.It instead provided the new quotes from Vegas officials shifting the
blame (which the Casino was trying not to subsume) onto the casino.It also had more information about the
culprits, what allowed the fraudulent jackpots to take place, and how common
such occurrences are.I think there will
be yet more articles on this in the future.It seems to be a hot issue and the three men will need to go through the
court system yet.